The cold weather couldn't stop more than 200 students and young professionals from attending the third Asian career fair and job skills seminar organized by the Asian Career Fair Consortium (ACF) on Feb 15.
They live in Houston, and their professions range from university professor to lawyer, engineer, scientist and business owner, and they are bound by one unforgettable experience: during China's Cultural Revolution, they left school and heeded Mao's call for China's zhiqing (educated youth) to go to the poor provinces and distant borders and work with the local people in villages or on military farms and construction teams.
One of China's finest orchestras, the Shenzhen Symphony, will visit Seattle on Feb 25 for a Chinese New Year concert, bringing classical music and Chinese artistic traditions.
For Wang Yaohui, a scientist in the Washington DC area, one of his highest missions always falls on Saturday afternoon when the school bell rings for Chinese classes, just as it has for the past decade.
Starting next September 50 students and 10 faculty members from China's Ningxia University will study for nearly a year at Missouri State University to burnish their agricultural, English and teaching skills.
Seventy students from Phillips Academy Andover, one of the US' most prestigious prep schools, will travel to China next month to collaborate with their Chinese counterparts in the Shanghai Arts Festival.
You may have heard of African Americans working on plantations in the Antebellum South or Chinese-American coolies laboring in California. Lesser known are the Chinese Americans who migrated to the South. A dance drama being performed on Saturday sheds light on this little-known part of American history.
The chief executive of the Port of Long Beach in California, a leading gateway for trade between the United States and Asia, said he thinks union leaders and shipping executives are close to reaching a new contract to end a dispute that has stalled cargo traffic at 29 West Coast ports.
Across America over the week (from Feb 13 to 19)
With Chinese Lunar New Year on Thursday, Aniya Carrington is busy perfecting singing a Chinese song that she will perform with her classmates at her school to celebrate the Year of the Ram.
With more than three quarters of waste going inadequately processed in China, the world's most populous country is now the world's No 1 dumper of plastic into the sea, according to research published in Science.
Las Vegas, an increasingly attractive hub for Chinese investment, will be rolling out Lunar New Year celebrations for the Year of the Ram as its casinos and hotels prepare for an increase in Chinese visitors during the new year.
Shipping bankruptcy strands ships, roils maritime cargo industry
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